The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Muslim prisoner in Arkansas who wants to grow his beard longer than the state’s regulation one-quarter inch, a case that drew Orthodox Jewish support. More ▸

“The real solution to the tuition crisis lies in using our political power and our advocacy efforts to increase state and local government funding for yeshivot and day schools,” O.U. leader Allen Fagin said. More ▸

The rabbi’s Nov. 21 blog post calling Arabs in the Land of Israel the enemy has prompted concern of negative fallout — including heightened security risks — at his Teaneck synagogue, Congregation Bnai Yeshurun. More ▸

The Orthodox Union said it “cannot countenance a response to terror that resorts to wholesale demonization, advocates for the collective punishment of Israeli Arabs, or calls for the destruction or dismantling of Muslim holy places.” More ▸

The rabbi of the largest Orthodox shul in Teaneck, N.J., says Arab stone throwers should be shot and the mosque on the Temple Mount should be moved to Saudi Arabia. His congregation — and mainstream Orthodox institutions — shrug. More ▸